What is it?

[Bill69]

Who can guess what this is? The item on the forktruck.

Hint, This photo was taken in 1956.

If not solved I will post the answer in about 12 hours.

 

[whistlehead]

Ooh, ooh! Pick me! Pick me!

Umm...

Is it a coffee machine?

 

[Ian_Coleman]

Is it a weather recorder?

ian

 

[HiBaller]

Looks like a hard drive for an IBM Computer. I'd guess maybe a half-meg. There is the IBM logo right at the top-right of the case.

Bill

 

[RRSignal]

Looks like a hard drive for an IBM Computer. I'd guess maybe a half-meg. There is the IBM logo right at the top-right of the case.

Bill

Good guess. It's got 10x that though - a whopping 5Mb!

 

[HiBaller]

We had a 10M unit attached to our machine back in 1964. It weighed in at just over 3/4 ton. 49 heads arranged along the drum matched the 49-bit machine it hooked to. The 49th bit was a parity bit.

We scrapped that after a year and went with a Burroughs D82 with a D825 Front end to handle 36 incoming and 24 outgoing TTY channels. All our programming was with punched cards.

Fun times.

Bill